Hold The Dates! June 26-28: Getting Started with Web Automated Testing

Are you completely new to functional web testing? Don’t know where to get started? If so, please mark off your calendar for a three day series of webinars June 26th, 27th, and 28th. I’ll be hosting these webinars from 11AM – 12PM Eastern US.

This series is targeted to individuals or teams just getting started with web automation—although more experienced folks may learn a few things too!

I’m still fleshing out the agenda and content, but here’s a few of the things you can look forward to learning about:

• Automation’s purpose/fit in your overall quality and testing strategy
• What a web page looks like under the covers, and how Test Studio interacts with it
• What a page’s lifecycle is, and why you need to know about it
• Understanding element locators, and why it’s so important to understand them well
• Dealing with dynamic content like AJAX
• Designing and implementing great test cases
• Why you’ll need close collaboration with your entire team
• Learning to build a backing framework
• Keeping your tests reliable and lean
• Learning why it’s important to not test everything—and learning the sorts of things to not test!
• Data driving tests to flesh out coverage
• Working with baseline data sets
• Understanding teardown and setup actions
• Working with source control
• Surviving and keeping your sanity as your test suite grows in size

These webinars are intended to be “Lunch and Learn” sessions: informal but with a lot of information flowing. I’ll be leaving plenty of time for questions, too! Register today!

About the author

Jim Holmes

Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools" and Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. He's a blogger and evangelist for Telerik’s Test Studio, an awesome set of tools to help teams deliver better software. Find him as @aJimHolmes on Twitter.